Egypt is negotiating advanced South Korean submarines
After President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s meeting with the head of a South Korean company, it is likely and expected that Egypt will contract new advanced diesel-electric submarines to Korea in the Doosan class and come in different versions up to 3700 tons, which are equivalent to the German Type-214 submarines, some of which are equipped with vertical launch cells .
The details of the potential deal were not mentioned in terms of numbers or amount.
About 8 months ago, the Tactical Report, an intelligence website that specializes in providing intelligence on the Middle East, reported that there was talk that Egyptian officials had held, during the past months, three meetings with executives from the French shipbuilder Naval Group to finalize their plans. Scorpene 2000-class submarine deal.
What reinforces this is that Egypt has prepared a basin specialized in the manufacture and maintenance of submarines, which was said to have been completed on May 25th.
The site said that Egypt is also close to signing a deal with France for Scorpion 2000 submarines, with local manufacturing inside the new basin, and it will be the first of its works.
However, it seems that the deal has not yet been completed, and Egypt may have switched direction towards South Korea, especially after showing the flexibility of transferring the technology of its weapons to Egypt, unlike the French.
